We've Got To Be Honest

It is Monday morning, 21st December 2020, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for the day.

If we go to the Gospel of John Chapter 1 and verse 47, Jesus said:

“Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”

The Oxford Dictionary defines the word, “deceit” - the action or practice of deceiving, misleading.

We can’t do that folks.

We have got to be honest with one another.

There must be no hidden motive, nothing false in our speech.

Yes, we have got to be the real deal.

It is so refreshing to speak to someone like that, isn’t it? No hidden agenda, no ulterior motive, totally uncomplicated.

I remember reading the story many years ago, of a man by the name of Henry Novan.

He was an international speaker. He was an intellectual. He travelled the world lecturing men all over the world, but God called him to lay down his ministry, and to go up into Canada, and to run a very small home for mentally challenged men.

And a friend phoned him one night, I think from probably New York City, and said, “I am totally broken. I need help.”

And Henry said, “Come up and see me.”

And this man was an extremely successful man in the eyes of the world but his family had left him.

He was a multimillionaire. In fact, inside, he was an absolute mess.

He contacted Henry and he flew up to see him.

Henry put him in a therapeutic class one day, sitting out in the garden, a circle of men.

One man was looking into space, another man drooling, another man moving back and forth sitting there with nobody doing anything.

This man thought, “What on earth am I doing in this place?”

Then all of a sudden, one man got up and he walked across the circle and he took his boney finger and he stuck it in the businessman’s chest and he said two words, “Too busy.”

And then he went and sat down and nothing happened.

And after five minutes, the same man got up again, the same man and he walked across and put his boney finger in this successful business-man’s chest, and he asked him one question, “Why?”

And then he went and sat down.

This man collapsed and he broke down and he went to Henry Nolan and he said, “I have got my answer.”

And he went back to New York and we trust that he sorted out his life.

Simplicity and honesty is what the world needs today my dear friend.

We have got to get down to the facts of the matter.

Nathaniel was a man who had no guile, no deceit, no ulterior motive in his heart. Jesus is looking for people today who are pure of heart.

Love people. Don’t challenge people. Don’t complicate things.

People have got enough problems as it is.

Let’s start and be those who have no deceit in our hearts.

God bless you and have a wonderful day.